A Brief History of the Boy

Scout Uniform

The very first Scout Uniform was modeled

on a uniform used by the South African Con-

stabulary. After the siege of Mafeking and

the end of the Anglo-Boer War, Britain had

control of the former Boer republics of

Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The

South African Constabulary was established

to be a peace-time army, somewhere be-

tween a police and a military force, to pacify

the former republics which were now part of

a united South Africa under British rule.

Baden-Powell was put in charge of the South

African Constabulary, as a leader with ex-

ceptional ability to organize the force from

scratch in a short time. He quickly recruited

a force from the two British colonies, the

Cape and Natal, which were now part of the

Union of South Africa. He also recruited

officers and men from Australia, New Zea-

land, Canada, India and Ceylon, England and

Ireland.

B-P himself designed the uniform: an infor-

mal khaki shirt and his favourite ‘Boss of the

Plains’ broad-rimmed hat. It was less formal

and more practical than the army uniform. B-

P had always preferred comfortable frontier

clothes.

Later when he established Scouting for boys,

B-P used a very similar uniform, with khaki

shirt and shorts, a scarf, and the famous

broad-brimmed hat.

The original colours of the Scout emblem –

gold on green – also came from the colours

of the Transvaal.

The Kudu Horn and the Matabele

The kudu is one of the largest and most

beautiful antelope in Africa. It is also the

origin of an obscure tradition Scouting: all

over the world, the elegant spiral horns of the

kudu, hollowed out as a wind instrument, are

used as signal horns to call Scout camps and

training courses together.

In the 1890s, Baden-Powell fought in the

Matabele campaign in what is now Zim-

babwe. The Matabele warriors had a unique

method of military signaling, using the deep

note of the kudu horn to carry coded signals

over long distances. After the campaign, B-P

took one of these horns home as a trophy –

the horn had belonged to the Matabele offi-

cer Siginyamatshe.

The Kudu Horn and Scouting

At the Brownsea Island camp in 1907, the

first Scouts were woken every morning by

the sound of B-P’s kudu horn. B-P had

brought together some of his favourite mili-

tary trophies to inspire the boys. He was a

master storyteller and never missed the

chance to remind Scouts of the heroic fron-

tier exploits he was famous for.

The Brownsea Camp led on to the birth of

the Scout movement, and later B-P gave his

kudu horn to the new Scoutmaster training

ground, Gilwell Park outside London.

In 1929, the 21st birthday of Scouting was

celebrated in a World Jamboree at Arrowe

Park. Baden-Powell used the same kudu horn

to call the Jamboree together. Today many

Scout camps and training grounds around the

world still use the kudu horn to signal to

Scouts and campers.

Volume 3, Issue 3 July 11, 2012

Tidbit of info.

When the Color

Guard says two at

flag ceremonies, it

means to go to po-

sition two. Posi-

tion one is at at-

tention and salut-

ing with position

two being at at-

tention with

hands at sides.

Boy Scout Uniform

Kudu horn

1

Schedule—Day 3 2

Schedule—Day 4 2

Rocket Launcher Info 2

Patrol Reports 3

Gazette Challenge 4

Inside this issue:

Gilwell Gazette

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Location

8:00 Breakfast/Assessments West Porch

9:00 Gilwell Field Assembly Gilwell Field

9:30 Interfaith Service TBA

10:30 Troop Meeting Main Lodge

Noon Leading EDGE™ / Main Lodge

Teaching EDGE™

1:00 Lunch West Porch

Location

2:00 Patrol Leaders Council Main Lodge

2:30 Conservation Proj. Plan Main Lodge

3:30 Patrol Mtg/Exhibit Patrol Site

6:00 Dinner West Porch

7:00 Ticket Development/ Patrol Site

8:00 October Sky Main Lodge

10:00 Cracker Barrel TBA

Location

3:15 Problem Solving & Main Lodge

Decision Making

3:45 Problem Solving RR On Mountain

5:00 Managing Conflict Patrol Camp Sites

6:00 Dinner Patrol Camp Sites

7:00 Patrol Meeting Patrol Camp Sites

8:30 Diversity Game Patrol Camp Sites

9:30 Participant Campfire Campfire Bowl

10:30 Patrol Cracker Barrel TBA

Location

8:00 Breakfast/Assessments Main Lodge

9:00 Gilwell Field Assembly Gilwell Field

9:30 Travel to Outdoor Exp. New Patrol Camp Sites

10:00 Patrol Camp Setup Various

11:30 Leading Change Main Lodge

12:30 Patrol Leaders Council PLC Area

1:00 Lunch Patrol Camp Sites

2:00 Generations of Scouting Main Lodge

Schedule—Day 3

Schedule—Day 4

Many have asked where to get the water bottle

launchers. A website that contains quite a bit of in-

formation about the subject is at:

http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~rockets/.

The launcher comes in two varieties, with or with

out the pressure gauge. Prices can be found online

at the website listed above.

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Time flies like an arrow… Fruit Flies like a banana.

Beaver Interestingly enough, like our patrol name, our group of Beavers is very industrious. One unique thing about the members of the

Beaver patrol is that we all have second professions that we work during the evening and on some weekends. In the spirit of getting

to know our awesome patrol better, we wanted to share those professions with the troop.

John Cooley: most people know that John is an exceptional athlete, however; you may not be aware of some of the things he did to

become so talented. His football coaches encouraged him to take ballet to improve his agility and balance. As a result, John fell in

love with ballet and continues to teach as a near-professional.

David Wilcox has a hidden passion for bowling. Owning 24 bowling balls and 6 wrist supports, David truly loves the 10-pin game.

In order to fund his habit, David works the counter at the bowling ally spraying Lysol in the used shoes.

Brandon Nielsen: a founding member of the American Eating Association, Brandon is a retired competitive eater and prefers to

coach now instead of participate. You may have seen him last week on TV during the annual Nathan’s hotdog eating contest cheer-

ing on his top pupil, Joey Chestnut.

Darren Thurgood: You may be aware that Darren is an elementary school teacher. What you likely don’t know is that Darren and

his family spend most summers in Malibu where he is the head lifeguard and the real-life inspiration for the hit TV show

“Baywatch”.

Mark Orton: having learned multiple languages on his mission and with his work in the national guard, Mark is often a guest moti-

vation speaker. Motivating in three different languages.

Aaron Love: although he gives off a quiet persona here at camp, give Aaron some oil and some dumbbells, and you’ll see his true

personality as a nationally recognized body builder.

Wendy Wiltbank: last but not least, based off of Wendy’s rendition of Princess Pat, you might be able to figure out her side job.

Just in case you can’t, you’ll find Wendy in bars from SLC to Tokyo belting out her lungs as a professional Karaoke singer.

Bobwhite

Eagle The Eagle Patrol is flying high we enjoy the view from our lofty heights. Our new Patrol Leader is Jared Fugal who works for wel-

fare services and he is looking out for our welfare. He has been trying to get his Eagle Award and now he is an Eagle. He is also

the Scoutmaster for Troop 811. We have enjoyed the Food, both for the body and the mind and spirit.

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Patrol News

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Patrol Member Occupation Family Notes of interest

Byron Beck Director of Analytical Appli-

cations at Nu Skin

Married with 6 children – 1 girl, 5

boys

Recently developed an interest in back-

packing thanks to Scouting.

Braxton Nerdin Caulker at Izart Welding.

Future career involves physi-

cal therapy

Son of Dave Nerdin. Youngest of four

kids; 3 boys, 1 girl. Plans to get mar-

ried after his mission.

Likes to play basketball and other sports.

Favorite book: the “Inheritance” series.

Tyson Ricks Landscape Management at

BYU

Wife (Jessica) of nine years. Three

kids – Abigail (5), Lucy (3), Maggie

(1)

Loves comics. Seasoned in martial arts,

reading, drawing, and mountain biking.

Richard Robbins

Web Promotion Strategist at

LDS Church

Wife (Lisa) and three kids: Maylee

(5), Spencer (3), Stephen (2)

Plays the piano. Learning the banjo, gui-

tar, violin, and mandolin.

Paul Stokes IT Director for Clyde Compa-

nies.

Married with five children – 1 girl, 4

boys

Likes sports and spending time with fam-

ily.

Chris Twitty Digital Media Director at

LDS Church

Married with four children – 3 boys, 1

girl

Loves anything sports and outdoors. TV

play-by-play analyst for BYU.

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the stark beauty of the desert, to the boy growing up in the city who is more familiar with urban hiking than mountain hiking. Scout-

ing is broach enough and strong enough to provide a framework for turning boys into men.

Woodbadge is turning out to be everything we thought it would be.

Owl The fun is definitely kicking in for the Owl patrol. We were able to finish our Program patrol

assignment and have gotten comfortable together. We also appreciate more and more the help

and council from Elizabeth, our guide. And with each new activity and lesson, we are seeing the

value Wood Badge will give us.

We all felt the Zulu game in the morning was a great way to start the day. The highlight of the

day was obviously the rocket launching. We’re sure all patrols feel their rocket was the best, but

Woodsy, our flying Owl was sure quite the sight for us to see. We are looking forward to con-

tinuing to working as a patrol to gain all we can from our projects and assignments.

We want to give another big hoot and holler to the staff and thank them for their efforts in mak-

ing this Wood Badge experience great.

Bear Da’ Bears…

After a long night of listing to all the inner bears (snoring), we enjoyed the warm up activity to

the stove competition as it helped us to hone our communication skills in a group setting and

dominate the actual camp stove competition.

Our next member is Mike Ross. Mike lives in the Lehi 36th Ward with his wife and four children. Mike is the Assistant Varsity

Coach. Their team has nine team members. Mike’s most memorable scouting experience is going on a fifty mile afoot and afloat

scout camp. They hiked 27 miles each way high into the Teton Mountains to catch the cutthroat in spawning season. That was fol-

lowed by a 50 miles float down the Snake River. Woodbadge has been a great experience in reflecting on the core values of scout-

ing.

Buffalo The Buffalo are herd animals, which carries well into our Patrol. Today we formed an even tighter herd. Teamwork was learned in

our Zulu Balls activity. We have worked on our Totems for the last two days; this has been an enjoyable experience everyone has

taken a hand in.

We feel our Patrol has great diversity, two mothers whom serve with the boy scouts, two members who are not associated with a

troop, and two young scout leaders. This gives us many different strengths we can draw upon.

Sarah Anderson comes to us from Lehi, she has two teen-agers. An interesting note is Sarah works with a troop that meets at non-lds

church and is full of diversity. What an opportunity to see the training we received firsthand.

Eric grew up in Northern Idaho. He has 3 children. He works for the LDS church IT department. He lives in Lehi and enjoys the

outdoors.

Antelope Nothing like a relaxing night!! Most of us were so wore out from Day 1 that we really didn’t hear much of anything from the ant

colony of tents stacked side by side (maybe an occasional growl from a bear or the owl feasting on his recent mouse catch or the fox

doing some talking to each other etc…). The food has been stellar and the days are packed with activities/learning opportunities.

The Antelopes had the opportunity to carry the service totem for the first day and in addition to helping setup and takedown the food

and cleanup we slipped over to Gilwell Field after the campfire and did our best in the dark to make it look better than before. For

only being here 24+ hours we have definitely built some friendships and taken to heart some of what we have learned.

Although the details are highly classified we can honestly say that using 6 members in our troop we were easily able to keep 7 tennis

balls in the air. We also noticed that troop flags keep disappearing and it has been agreed that any soul or group being caught taking

another troops flag must spend 30 minutes in one of the Port-A-Thrones. If the entire troop is guilty then they all can share the same

throne – again they must be caught red handed and not just an accusation.

Thank you to the staff and everyone who put together Woodbadge.

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“We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not

willing to see our children do. We should set them an example

that we wish them to imitate.”

Gazette Competition The patrol that comes closest to the correct answers to the fol-

lowing will receive a prize.

The situation: On vacation in July, you and your family

have been traveling through the wilderness of Utah in a pickup

camper. In a blinding rainstorm more than 150 miles over a

maze of truck routs into the wilderness. The camper has run

out of gas and now you, your spouse, a 12 year-old son, a 10

year-old daughter, a 6 year-old son, and the family cat are lost.

After a family conference, you decide it is not wise to split up.

You are going to try to walk back together. You are pretty sure

that if you pace yourselves, you can cover about 15 miles a

day. Because of a fuel shortage, there are no helicopters or

jeeps patrolling the area, and you have seen no other cars or

houses.

The family is dressed in lightweight summer clothing, and

everyone is wearing sneakers. Temperatures at night dip into

the low 40’s It is also bug season. As you look around, you

find the following items in the camper, some of which might

be useful.

The Task: You must choose, and put in priority order, the

15 most important items for survival in this situation. The

other 15 may be eliminated. Rank the items below in order of

importance.

Fishing gear,

$500.00 in traveler’s checks, .

44 Magnum handgun and ammunition,

Four Dacron-filled sleeping bags,

5-gallon jug of water,

Instant breakfast (three boxes),

House and RV keys,

Cigarettes,

Coleman camp stove (two-burner),

family tent (10 lbs),

Snakebite kit, alarm clock,

five cans of kidney-liver cat food,

5-lb tub of peanut butter,

bathing suits,

inflatable rubber raft (two pieces, total of 20 lbs),

10-lb cheese wheel,

transistor radio,

6-foot tent pole,

sheath knife,

wool sweater for all,

raft paddles,

paperback books,

first-aid kit, matches,

steak (3-lbs),

marshmallows (4 bags),

bug repellent,

walkie-talkie radio,

road map of Utah.

We have followed the steps of Forming, Storming, Norming

and are in the stage of Performing. We have enjoyed getting

to know one and other and feel our Patrol is awesome. Be

aware that as we soar in lofty heights our eye is upon you, and

we look forward to the competitions ahead.

Fox As we grow together in scouting and especially as a Fox pa-

trol, I can’t help applying the lessons we are learning to other

situations; work, church and especially home. It’s a special

week for me. Three of my sons (all aged 12) are attending

scout camp here at Tifie this week. I compare their experi-

ence, starting out in scouting, we experience I see in Troop 1,

where for some of us our step has slowed. One of the con-

stants though, is the idea that scouting is about merit badges

and swim tests, but equally about leadership and team build-

ing.

My boys have little concept of the rich legacy of scouting that

they are the beneficiaries of. At some point, I hope all our

boys recognize the value of giving back. Whether we have

spent a lifetime in scouting or this week is our first experience

in adult scouting, the beauty and the power of the program is

it’s ability to teach scouts and scouters of all ages, sizes and

circumstances. From the boy growing up in Utah with it’s

easy access to exciting canyons, high mountain meadows and (Continued on page 4)

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Utah National Parks Council

Boy Scouts of America

748 North 1340 West

Orem, Utah 84057

W2-591-12-3

Phone: (801) 437-6222

http://www.utahscouts.org

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